Saturday, August 22, 2015

Ted Cruz straightens Jeb Bush out on his citizenship...

Ted Cruz was no an anchor baby. His mother was a U.S. citizen...

DES MOINES, Iowa—
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday fired back at Jeb Bush, who a day earlier
suggested the senator, who was born in Canada to a son of a Cuban
immigrant and American-born mother, was the beneficiary of birthright
citizenship.
“I appreciate Governor Bush’s concern. I would note it seems he’s
having a problem and getting confused between legal immigration and
illegal immigration,” Cruz told reporters here ahead of his soapbox
speech at the Iowa State Fair. “With regard to legal citizens, I’m a
United States citizen because my mother was a United States citizen,
born in Wilmington, Delaware. And it has been the law since the
beginning of the country that the children of American citizens born
here or abroad are American citizens by birth.”
Cruz, whose father came to the U.S. from Cuba, is advocating the
repeal of birthright citizenship protections for the children of illegal
immigrants, a position highlighted this week after Donald Trump
promoted the idea in his controversial immigration plan.
A day earlier, Bush suggested in New Hampshire that Cruz was the
beneficiary of the broader birthright citizenship protection clause of
the 14th Amendment. Bush opposes altering that language.Keep reading…